Before the next double punch. Another potentially heavy snowstorm, followed by a knockout arctic deep freeze. Part of the midwest, dodged a bullet this week. Wont be as lucky this time around. Broadcasters are predicting subzero win chills and coldest weather in decade. The mercury expected to plunge in green bay where the packers and 49ers will play one of the coldest games in history. Temperatures hovering around zero. It will feel more like 15. The roughly 80,000 fans brave enough to embrace the bitter cold. They will receive free hand warmers, coffee and chocolate. For thousand getting home from the holiday has been an unending nightmare. Tens of thousand of delays, cancellations at airport across the country since the snow first started. Hundred more canceled for sun day. The family left cancun to find their connecting flight to omaha canceled. We didnt know any of this was going on. So we should have stayed. Real danger with all the extreme weather. More than 16 people have diedr
From the hill say a resolution for a budget deal looks optimistic in congress. A one trillion dollar omnibus spending bill could be released as soon as monday. The bill will need to be passed by the 16th of this month to avert a government shutdown. A fed farewell. Outgoing Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke speaks today in philadelphia at the American Economic association. Bernanke will particpate in a q a in addition to his speech looking back on his time as fed head. And. The nation is rocked by an epic snow storm. Deemed winter storm hercules. The nearblizzard condtions continue across the country. With the majority of the snowfall today hitting the northeast. Mark sebastian of swan Wealth Advisors joins us now for some trader talk. Hi mark happy new year. Happy new year. Id like to ask you, were starting off this new year and the dow is down, gold is up. Whats going on . I think now that the fed has begun tapering, the market is to be much more economic report driven than its b
Carcinogen coming from the burning wreckage of those cars. A Train Derailment forces north dakota residents to flee. After one Freight Train crashed into another that was hauling crude oil. Ive never seen anything like this happen before. Its crazy. Bonerattling cold weather covering the central u. S. Has produced snow and ice and the northeast may be in for a major snowstorm to begin the new year. Estimated 1 million revelers were expected to pack new york citys times square to bring in 2014 with a dropping of the iconic crystal ball. Theres a lot of activity going on. They will all be adequately policed. Preparations are being made to use helicopters to reach a ship stuck in the ice in antarctica since christmas eve. How do you celebrate on a stranded ship . You find whatever spirits you can. I mean emotionally and alcoholic. A little girl is recovering after a frightening fall down a 50foot well in western georgia. It took more than an hour to lift her to safety. Beyonce is facing c
Look at the pros and cons and questions about whether fires and floods and the droughts education and how theyre going to fare. Were going to look at congress in a big vote this week if they dont make a change to the National Flood Insurance Program. We talked to a consumer advocate who is going to point out why this is happening now and how Congress Plans to fix it. There is money troubles, something is going to happen. First, a look at the weather and well look live at sfo and that is partly cloudy out there, no delays as of yet. You can see 38 in concord; 40, livermore and look at that, 49 in San Francisco. This is what is goings on today, partly cloudy, starting with patchy fog and mostly sunny. There is a High Surf Advisory, and were looking at a record warmth next week. And thank you, michelle. There is another fire on the eastern edge of downtown san jose and this is at san antonio and 26th street and not clear if the small fire is connected to a string of fires that investigato
And specially in a gap of first time is a little after 3 00. The last time the man is seen on cam race 4 00 a. M. Firefighters can be seen arriving to fight the fire minutes later. I fear that one of these fires could prove fatal. This house fire set an thursday left two residents homeless on san antonio street. So did five other smaller house fires. A portable unit at this Baptist Church also on san antonio was torched on wednesday. But the cause of the massive warehouse fire on thursday has not been determined. Many neighbors are on alert. My plan is, if i hear anymore sirens like this morning, im going to jump on my bicycle and start looking for anybody out in the street. For now the suspect is described as a thin white or hispanic man with dark hair, 20240 years old, 60, weighing 160 to 1 0pounds, wearing baggy clothes. Firefighters say he may not be acting alone. Investigators in palo alto have to wait until tomorrow to look into a fatal house fire where two people were found dead